Ancient India and China Vocabulary

: a large-scale wind system that seasonally blows in opposite directions and determines the climate of large regions; in India it brings heavy rainfall in summer and cold, dry air in winter

to treat a person or group worse than others or better than others unfairly, usually because of a prejudice about race, ethnicity, religion, age, or gender

to figure out the meaning of something written in an unknown form or language; decode, translate

A prominent and powerful family or group of people who retain the leadership of a country through several generations

A ruler or leader having total control of a country or region

To carry goods into another country secretly; often illegally

People who study the life ancient people

the Hindu belief that a spirit passes from one living thing to another; nothing ever dies